My question was moderated to +5 — how come it didn get passed along for an answer?
We typically get 30 or 40 questions moderated +5, and since we only send 10 to our interview guests, not all highly-moderated questions will get asked. Usually a number of highly-moderated questions either ask the same thing in different words or overlap so much that we send only one per topic. If yours is the one Slashdot editors believe represents that “group” of questions best, it’s the one that gets picked. We tend to pick questions that have meaningful subject lines (“A Question” is not a meaningful subject line), and we prefer questions that are short and pithy to long, wandering ones. Spelling and grammar count, too. (Make sure, especially, that you spell the interview guest’s name right.
